Mads Mikkelsen

An intense presence in international film since the late 1990s, actor Mads Mikkelsen enjoyed considerable popularity in his native Denmark with turns as brooding, often violent men on both sides of th...
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Joe Anderson to replace Michael Pitt in Hannibal

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Dec 22, 2014

Actor Joe Anderson has been cast as Michael Pitt's replacement in hit U.S. TV series Hannibal. The Boardwalk Empire star was first introduced as Mason Verger in the second season of the show earlier this year (14), but he has since decided not to return for the upcoming third season, according to TVLine.com.
Anderson recently took to Instagram.com to confirm the casting news by showing off a picture of himself sporting prosthetics for the character's burned face.
Hannibal, which stars Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, is slated to return to the small screen next year (15).

British moviemaker Steve Mcqueen is to be honoured for his career achievements at the 2014 European Film Awards. The 12 Years A Slave director will receive the prestigious European Achievement in World Cinema prize at the 27th annual ceremony in recognition of his contribution to film.
McQueen will also be the European Film Academy's guest of honour at the prizegiving in Riga, Latvia on 13 December (14).
Previous recipients include Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, Dame Helen Mirren and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen.

The Emmy Award nominations incited much Twitter rage today, and in the midst of all the hashtags for Tatiana Maslany and Mads Mikkelsen, people seemed to have forgotten about THE Vincent Kartheiser. While Mad Men and Jon Hamm were both [unsurprisingly] nominated, Kartheiser continues to be snubbed for his brilliant performance as the incomparable Pete Campbell. But you know what? He's still KING.
1. Still heralded as his greatest moment, ever:
2. Sure, every man may be a type and may have a type. But when this... lady of the night captured Campbell's "type" it was everything:
3. The audio is ridiculous, but the clip never gets old:
4. Greatest. Middle-aged man. Fist fight. Ever (sure, this is really Lane Pryce's finest hour, but still):
5. Pete + Janis Joplin = all you need in life.
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In the past six months, we've said goodbye to a king and hello to another, met some new clones, traveled the flat circle of time, and had an old friend for dinner. So far, it's been a stunning year for television. We've seen so many wonderful, gripping horrifying, funny, and poignant moments blaze across our television screens in 2014, so it's hard to fathom that we're only halfway through the year. Here's a list of some of our favorite moments in television this year... so far. (Beware spoilers!)
The Mountain Crushes the ViperShow: Game of ThronesEpisode: "The Mountain and the Viper"
It was all too easy for Oberyn, who was doing backflips and chanting accusations while easily besting the Mountain in combat. But style, grace, and most importantly, honor have no place in the world of Game of Thrones. A lesson the show has painfully reiterated time and time again. What really gets things done in Westeros is brutal efficiency. So when the Mountain grabs hold of Oberyn by the scruff of the neck, unlike his competitor he wastes no time in gouging the prince's eyes out and crushing his head in horribly graphic fashion. The scene was a disgusting display of SFX wizardry and we've been wincing for weeks.
Three Years Later...Show: Parks and RecreationEpisode: "Moving Up"
For the past six years, Leslie has served Pawnee with moxie and unbridled enthusiasm, but it soon became clear that the devoted public servant was becoming too big for her little Indiana town. Pawnee after all, is somehow simultaneously the greatest town in America and hell on earth for anyone with more than two brain cells rubbing together. We knew Leslie would have to move on eventually, we just didn't know it would be so soon. In a brave gambit, Parks and Recreation jumps ahead three whole years and catches up with Leslie working a new job in Chicago with three toddler-aged kids. Ben is also inexplicably wearing a tuxedo. We've sometimes criticized Parks and Rec for growing a little stagnant formula-wise, and this was a brilliant shake-up for the series.
Helena ReturnsShow: Orphan BlackEpisode: "Governed as it Were by Chance"
At the end of the first season, Sarah shot her “seestra” Helena and left her for dead, but in the second, she found out that it takes more than a gunshot to take out the most unpredictable clone of all. Their reunion in the bathroom is one of Tatiana Maslany’s finest performances, a tense, terrifying moment that highlights the differences between all of the clones. As Helena, she’s creepy and otherworldly and desperate to be loved and protected; as Sarah, she’s terrified and traumatized, shaking uncontrollably and unable to breathe. It’s everything that’s exhilarating and mesmerizing about Maslany’s work on the show condensed into a powerhouse of a scene.
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The Dinner PartyShow: HannibalEpisode: "Mizumono"
Season 2 of Hannibal opened and closed with a deadly dinner that was nothing short of a game-changer. The season's slow burning tragedy ended with a shocking, bloody, and audacious final 10 minutes that leaves Will Graham and essentially the entire principal cast bleeding out, dead, or dying, while Hannibal escapes into the night. It's hard to think of a moment of television in 2014 that left us more gutted.
The Long TakeShow: True DetectiveEpisode: "Who Goes There"
These days, television is on a definite winning streak, with some even proclaiming that the lowly boob tube has even transcended film. TV has certainly come a long way in the past 10 years, and even in the last five, but one area where television has always felt lacking is in cinematography. Directing on television can sometimes feel largely perfunctory, a means to an end. But then we saw the fourth episode of True Detective. And then we forgot what movies even were for a couple days. When undercover cop Rust Cohle is caught up in a white supremacist robbery gone wrong, he escapes in a breathtaking six-minute long take that's not only absurdly complex and seamless but so unflinchingly thrilling. We can't even begin to comprehend how Cary Fukunaga put this one together.
The Coming Out PartyShow: ShamelessEpisode: "Emily"
Generally, when characters come out as gay on television, they do so through a heartfelt confession underscored to soft piano music. But Mickey Milkvoich is not a typical character and Shameless is not a typical show. So when Mickey came out, he did so by getting into a bar fight with his abusive, homophobic, alcoholic father. It’s a testament to Noel Fisher’s performance that he’s not only turned Mickey from a one-off bully into one of the most sympathetic – if not necessarily likeable – characters on the show, but he also created a scene that it simultaneously touching and triumphant.
Ding Dong, the King is DeadShow: Game of ThronesEpisode: "The Lion and the Rose"
With the Starks scattered in the winds, Stannis virtually army-less, and Daenerys still tying to be the Abe Lincoln of Essos, we expected Joffery, the cruel boy king of Westeros, to sit on the Iron Throne for decades. to come. Luckily, Game of Thrones doesn't give a crap what we expect, and in the midst of Joffery's garish wedding celebration, right when Joffery was being his Joffery-est, the king is murdered. And when the big moment finally happens, it isn't triumphant or cathartic like we had always imagined, but horrifying. Watching the life slip out of this child (a fact that's so easy to forget) as he clutches for his mother, and seeing his terrified face go blue then grey, with eyes wild and confused, struggling to understand what was happening, the scene is actually deeply sad. We even felt pity for the poor monster. But we felt even worse for the people caught in the blowback of his assassination.
Mind Your MannersShow: Orange Is the New BlackEpisode: "We Have Manners. We're Polite."
You know all that catharsis we were missing from the death of Joffery on Game of Thrones? Well, we sure felt it in spades here. Vee spent Season 2 of Orange Is the New Black terrorizing and manipulating the inmates of Litchfield. So when Rosa crunches into Vee with her stolen prison van, extinguishing the menace for good... Let's just say we've never felt better about seeing someone get hit with a car.
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Ginsberg Looses His S**t... and NippleShow: Mad MenEpisode: "The Runaways"
Most of Mad Men's psychological traumas occur beneath the skin. But Michael Ginsberg, the least "polished" of the Sterling Cooper &amp; Partners troupe, found a way to bring his issues to the surface in one of the weirdest scenes in the series' history: he removed the valve. He cut off his own nipple, exemplifying a bout with what can only be presumed to be paranoid schizophrenia at the behest of a mechanical interloper. Mad Men is all about metaphors... and we're still clawing at this one to figure out what it means.
Emmett and Leanne's KillerShow: The AmericansEpisode: "Echo"
On FX, there is a show that is every bit as good as Game of Thrones, Hannibal, or True Detective, but only a scant few are watching. The Americans wrapped up its sophomore season in brilliant fashion, letting loose a twist that shocked to the core. After spending the season searching for the killers of fellow undercover KGB agents, Emmet and Leanne, Philip and Elizabeth discover that the real killer was none other than their friends' own son, who was admitted into the KGB behind his parents' back. As the young man revealed his misdeeds between bloody gasps and blind soviet patriotism, everything about the second season was suddenly turned on its head. The most frightening revelation: Paige and Henry, Elizabeth and Phillip's own kids, are next in line to become operatives. Is it 2015 yet?
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Sandra Bullock's space thriller Gravity added to its trophy haul on Thursday (26Jun14) by winning five prizes at the annual Saturn Awards. The blockbuster was named Best Science Fiction Film, Bullock picked up Best Actress and Alfonso Cuaron was named Best Director, while the movie also took prizes in the editing and special/visual effects categories.
Spike Jonze's Her was also a top winner, taking Best Fantasy Film, Best Writing, and Best Supporting Actress for Scarlett Johansson.
Iron Man 3 was named Best Comic-to-film Motion Picture, while its stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Sir Ben Kingsley were hailed as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
In the TV categories, Hannibal and Revolution tied for the Best Network Television Series Release award. Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen was named best TV actor and best TV actress went to Vera Farmiga for Bates Motel.
Supporting trophies went to Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead).
Malcolm McDowell was honoured with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his five-decade career in Hollywood.
The annual ceremony celebrates the best of science fiction, fantasy and horror films.

Somali Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi, Paul Dano and Michael Fassbender are among the 271 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Actors Ben Foster, Sally Hawkins, Josh Hutcherson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and Jason Statham and directors Gavin O'Connor, Paolo Sorrentino and Jean-Marc Vallee are also on the membership list with Hollywood's top casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, make-up artists, animators, producers, moguls and documentary makers.
Musicians Eddie Vedder and Pharrell Williams have also been invited to join the Academy.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in September (14).

Ron Perlman has urged movie bosses to cast him as the villain in the next James Bond movie. The Hellboy star is a huge fan of the superspy franchise and dreams of going up against Daniel Craig's 007 in the follow-up to 2012 blockbuster Skyfall.
Perlman tells the London Evening Standard, "I would love to be in a Bond movie. That would be an honour and a thrill. The Bond franchise has created some wonderful three-dimensional characters, especially the bad guys, starting with Goldfinger. That dude was memorable and the one that Mads Mikkelsen played in Casino Royale."
He adds of Craig, "He's a great Bond. He's second only to (Sean) Connery for me."

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There are some days when all you need a movie to be is light and cheerful, but then there are others when all you want to do is wallow in sadness for a little while and have a good cry. For times like those, you need a film that will rip your heart out. Our Netflix Hand-Picked Flix recommendation for this week's Bluesday Tuesday pick, The Hunt, will do just that, and then probably stomp on it a few times for good measure.
There's nothing much like watching someone's life crumble to dust, and that's what you get from The Hunt. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's latest is a draining yet wholly rewarding experience. In the film, Mads Mikkelsen plays Lucas, a kindergarten teacher who's starting to rebuild his life after a messy divorce when an innocent lie from one of his students lands Lucas in the middle of a child molestation scandal that ignites the entire village into a volley of malicious finger pointing, and transforms Lucas into a small-town pariah.
Mikkelsen commands the screen with a superb and understated performance, as he slowly realizes that the home he's made, and the home his family has made for generations has come to revile him. The Hunt isn't laid-back viewing, and you should readily prepare to relearn the meaning of the word empathy. It's a uniquely fustrating film and, at times, a struggle to watch, The tension creeps in slowly until it's almost too painful to bare, but don't worry, it's a good hurt.
You can stream The Hunt on Netflix, and make sure to check back tomorrow for our recommendations for the perfect Docu-Wednesday film.
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Pass the fava beans and pour yourself a nice chianti, because our favorite cannibal is back when Hannibal returns for its second season on NBC. The show has been a surprising cult hit, with “fannibals” popping up on social networks like Tumblr and Twitter.
One of the ingredients to the success of this strange, macabre tale is the beautifully realized and atmospheric world of the show. Much of that world, from death tableaux to interior design, is created by production designer Matthew Davies.
Hollywood.com was lucky enough to talk to Davies about creating the world of the show and even got him to dish (pun intended) on his favorite death tableau:
How does production design help in creating the creepy world of the show?Every genre has its own aesthetic vocabulary, and Hannibal's world is especially rarified. The colour palette is tightly controlled, the death tableaux are carefully designed to invoke a kind of macabre beauty, and all our sets are designed from the ground up to meet the needs of character, camera, and narrative.
Can you talk about what went into making Hannibal's favorite rooms: the kitchen and the dining room?There is a lot of theater in Hannibal's world; the dining room has a baroque palette of deep cobalt blues, chocolate grays, and emerald greens. The language is laden with hedonistic excess, in addition to the vertically-stacked herb garden that grows from a massive 19th century etched mural, we have a gilt-framed painting of Leda and the Swan over the fireplace and themed floral displays that change and rotate throughout the episodes. If you look closely, you'll see that these displays include taxidermy animals, feathers, animal bones, insects, and other exotica.
The Kitchen is a professional chef's kitchen, all stainless appliances are working and the overall feel for performance is consistent with Hannibal's status as a master chef.
Additionally, Hannibal is intimately connected with a new environment: his bedroom. The walls are entirely upholstered with wool/cashmere suit fabric and the floors are antiqued, cerused oak. Either side the bed are old Japanese prints (Hannibal's aunt was Japanese) and the room is filled with other ephemera that true fans might recognize from Hannibal's literary past in Thomas Harris' novels.
There are a lot of over-the-top death tableaux on the show. What goes into creating those?With each new script, we meet with our showrunner Bryan Fuller to discuss how each tableau should look. Concept illustrators create finely detailed renditions for approval and then our Head of Prosthetics Francois Dagenais begins work, supported by Construction, Props, SFX, and Set Dec. Each tableau takes a couple of weeks to produce, and we will often re-shoot elements on special "insert days."
What was your biggest challenge so far on Hannibal?Time is our biggest worry on Hannibal: every episode shoots in just eight days. Imagine trying to shoot a feature film in eight days, coupled with immense set builds, SFX rigs, and planned VFX sequences.
On occasion, we've had as little as 48 hours to design, build, dress, light and shoot elaborate sets in studio. Conflicting actor availabilities, weather and all sorts of other obstacles often force us into around-the-clock schedules. At any time of the day or night, someone, somewhere is busting their gut to be ready for camera.
What's been your favorite moment working on the show?I really enjoyed the first season's episode in which we touched on human musical instruments - the prosthetics were macabre in the extreme and we researched and re-created an entire world of fabricating gut strings from raw material. The same episode also had a great fight sequence - I liked the spectacle of Hannibal's office becoming a fighting pit for the scene.
How do you use production design to visually tell the audience something about the characters?Think about it like this - in any single frame of the show, everything that is not the actors, is the design. It is quite literally everything that we know about the story and characters, other than what we perceive through performance.
It's the flesh on the bones; it's what makes the entire world of Hannibal feel plausible and yet so creepily peculiar. Bryan Fuller really believes that audiences demand good design in the shows they watch. I hope he's right!
Hannibal can be a pretty creepy show. What has been the creepiest assignment you've gotten on the show?We have scouted so many dark and disturbing locations, researched enough macabre story-lines for a lifetime's worth of nightmares, as well as pushed the envelope of television horror. We've had tapestries and totem poles of dismembered bodies, monsters and cannibals, killer pigs and dinosaurs. However, the creepiest place by far is inside Bryan's Fuller head. We're all his prisoners!
Hannibal returns to NBC on February 28 at 10 PM.
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Marvel Comics
Right on the heels of introducing the world to the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel is on the hunt for a director to bring their next lesser-known comic book hero Doctor Strange to life. While Strange is probably a slightly better known character to non-comic book devotees than the cosmic misfits that make up the Guardians, he still resides firmly on the fringes of public awareness, despite the character being an essential figure in Marvel's long-running comic book universe. Presently, there are four names that Marvel is considering to handle this new project: Mark Andrews, Nikolaj Arcel, Dean Israelite, and Jonathan Levine.
First, a bit about the character: Doctor Strange, a surgeon turned sorcerer, learns the secrets of mysticism after a car accident ruins the nerves in his hands, and ends his medical career. Strange often battles with bigger ideas than his spandexed counterparts, and the character's stories have long been steeped with cosmic questions and mystical settings mixed with '60s psychedelia and psychology. Created in 1963 by the legendary Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the publication ensnared free-minded college students who were surprised to learn that comics could pack such an intellectual wallop. Doctor Strange is far from your typical Marvel superhero. He's a man of fierce intellect, and he often serves as a spiritual guidepost for much of Marvel's crowded superhero landscape. He juggles whiz bang action with serious surrealism and mysticism, and these disparate elements need to be merged into his upcoming adventure.
Marvel is currently courting several directors to craft Doctor Strange's first live-action adventure, and the field is a diverse smattering of directors from all over the filmmaking landscape. They've also approached screenwriters Jon Aibel and Glenn Berger to pen the script, and are considering Hannibal star Mads Mikkelson to play the title character. Depending on who they ultimately choose to direct, the Doctor Strange film could potentialy take a very different shape when all is said in done. Let's look at Marvel's short list of directors:
MARK ANDREWS
Notable Works: BraveWhy He Fits: Andrews has had a long and storied career in animation, and has served as a storyboard artist for several animated modern classics, including The Iron Giant and Ratatouille. He also directed and co-wrote Pixar's Brave, an underappreciated gem. Andrews might be able to transfer his long career working with storyboards, which are themselves essentially comic book blueprints for animated films, into the creation of a film based on actual comics.
NIKOLAJ ARCEL
Notable Works: A Royal Affair
Why He Fits: The characters and stories that make up Doctor Strange's publication history have always had a foreign and even otherworldly flair to it, with the Doctor often going way outside of his Greenwich Village home to investigate different mysteries. The good doctor often bumps into strange creatures on his travels. Director Arcel already has experience directing lavish set pieces and costumes with his work in A Royal Affair, though it remains to be seen if he can translate the detailed production work for a period piece into a film with comic book sensibilities.
DEAN ISRAELITE
Notable Works: Nothing Yet
Why He Fits: Dean Israelite's filmography is very much a work in progress at the moment. The director is by far the least recognizable name on the list, with little on his resume besides a couple of short films. In 2014, we'll see Israelite's first feature film, Welcome to Yesterday: a loopy looking found-footage time travel genre bender that seems like the angsty teenage offspring of Primer and Chronicle. The trailer for the film shows that the director has gained some experience in special effect filmmaking which he can apply to a Doctor Strange film.
JONATHAN LEVINE
Notable Works: 50/50, Warm Bodies
Why He Fits: Comic book movies aren’t all visuals and explosions, and Levine has shown that he can do wonders with a great script. Levine has done some great genre filmmaking with his work on Warm Bodies, but he also has a delicate enough of a touch to hit all the right notes in a film like 50/50, which is full of smaller moments, as well as boisterous comedy. All of his films also share a sharp wit, something that is always present in Marvel's films.
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Made his American film debut playing Tristan opposite Clive Owen in "King Arthur"

Summary

An intense presence in international film since the late 1990s, actor Mads Mikkelsen enjoyed considerable popularity in his native Denmark with turns as brooding, often violent men on both sides of the law in "Pusher" (1996) and on the television series "Rejseholdet (Unit One)" (DR1, 2000-04) before leaping to stardom in America as men of action in "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Clash of the Titans" (2010). Despite his flinty, often taciturn screen image, Mikkelsen also excelled in comedies like "The Green Butchers" (2003), as well as more sympathetic turns in the Oscar-nominated "After the Wedding" (2006). His performance as the icy terrorist Le Chiffre in the James Bond thriller "Casino Royale" (2006) brought him to the attention of Hollywood, which cast him largely in period action features like "Titans" and "The Three Musketeers" (2011). A Best Actor Award win at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival as a man haunted by child abuse allegations in "The Hunt" (2012) underscored his standing as one of Europe's most popular leading men. His subsequent casting as the iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter on the TV series "Hannibal" (NBC, 2013- ) also highlighted an acting career on a skyrocketing trajectory.